Saint-Hilaire-les-Andresis / Saint-Hilaire-les-Andrésis / Saint-Hilaire-les-Andresy / Saint-Hilaire-lès-Andrésy

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view of church exterior - west view

Scene Description: the original church here is documented as early as 1029, but the present building dates mostly of the 18th and 19thC

Image Source: digital photograph taken 12 September 2014 by François Goglins [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Saint-Hilaire-les-Andrésis-FR-45-église-03.jpg] [accessed 26 March 2017]

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INFORMATION

FontID: 04765HIL

Object Type: Stoup

Church/Chapel: Eglise Sainte-Hilaire à Saint-Hilaire-les-Andrésis [now in a museum; orig. from the church at Saint-Hilaire-lès-Andrésy]

Church Patron Saints: St. Hilary of Poitiers

Church Location: 45320 Saint-Hilaire-les-Andrésis, France

Country Name: France

Location: Loiret, Centre-Val de Loire

Directions to Site: Located off the D32, 4 km WNW of Courtenay, 25 km ENE of Montargis, 90 km ENE of Orléans

Ecclesiastic Region: Diocèse d'Orléans

Historical Region: Le Gâtinais pauvre

Font Location in Church: In a museum

Century and Period: 15th century, Late Medieval

Church Notes: church here documented early-11thC, related to the priory and monastery at Andrésy; damaged by fire 1214, and in the wars between 1358 and 1428; re-built 15th and 16thC; modified 17th and 18thC; most furnishings replaced 19thC [source: www.saint-hilaire-les-andresis.fr/fr/information/32968/histoire [accessed 26 March 2017]]

Font Notes: Click to view

Described in Lasteyrie (1926-1927) as a holy-water stoup which matches the type and ornamentation of those of the 15th century. Lasteyrie gives the location ca. 1926 as the Musée d'Orléans, and its place of origin the church at Saint-Hilaire-lès-Andrésy in the Loiret.

MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS

Material: metal

REFERENCES

Lasteyrie du Saillant, Robert Charles, conte de, Architecture réligieuse en France à l'époque gothique (éd. posthume par Marcel Aubert)[2 vols.], Paris: A. Picard, 1926-1927